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History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora Ser.: Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character : British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland by William Williams (2012, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-100299225240
ISBN-139780299225247
eBay Product ID (ePID)108156341
Product Key Features
Number of Pages280 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameTourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character : British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland
Publication Year2012
SubjectEthnic Studies / General, Essays & Travelogues, Europe / Ireland
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaTravel, Social Science, History
AuthorWilliam Williams
SeriesHistory of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight13.8 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"A 'must read' for scholars interested in pre-famine Ireland, in the development of modern tourism, and in the development of British and Irish nationalism."--Sean Farrell, New Hibernia Review, "Certainly among the most comprehensive and engaging explorations of this literature yet to appear, not only for what it says about British travelers in Ireland but also for what it indirectly reveals about life in pre-famine Ireland itself."-Mark Doyle, Journal of British Studies, "Williams surveys dozens of guidebooks and travel narratives . . . to show how the landscape was made to yield up a host of stereotypes and a foil against which to justify the ongoing history of English domination."--Donald Ulin, Victorian Studies, "Williams offers critical insight into the formation of what became the dominant British understanding of Irish society and poverty, a view that had a devastating influence on the popular and official response to the Great Famine."--Michael de Nie, author of The Eternal Paddy: Irish Identity and the British Press, 1798-1882, "Williams offers critical insight into the formation of what became the dominant British understanding of Irish society and poverty, a view that had a devastating influence on the popular and official response to the Great Famine."-Michael de Nie, author of The Eternal Paddy: Irish Identity and the British Press, 17981882, "A 'must read' for scholars interested in pre-famine Ireland, in the development of modern tourism, and in the development of British and Irish nationalism."-Sean Farrell, New Hibernia Review, "Certainly among the most comprehensive and engaging explorations of this literature yet to appear, not only for what it says about British travelers in Ireland but also for what it indirectly reveals about life in pre-famine Ireland itself."--Mark Doyle, Journal of British Studies, "Williams surveys dozens of guidebooks and travel narratives . . . to show how the landscape was made to yield up a host of stereotypes and a foil against which to justify the ongoing history of English domination."-Donald Ulin, Victorian Studies
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal914.1504/7
Table Of ContentIllustrations Preface Introduction 1. Picturesque Tourism in Ireland 2. Historical and Religious Landscapes 3. Putting Paddy in the Picture 4. British Tourists and Irish Stereotypes 5. Tourism and the Semeiotics of Irish Poverty 6. Irish Poverty and the Irish Character 7. Misreading the Agricultural Landscape 8. Discovering the Moral Landscape 9. Landscape, Tourism, and the Imperial Imagination in Connemara Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisThis title draws from more than 100 accounts by English, Scottish, Welsh, and Anglo-Irish tourists written between 1750 and 1850 to probe the moral judgments British observers made about the Irish countryside and its native inhabitants., Picturesque but poor, abject yet sublime in its Gothic melancholy, the Ireland perceived by British visitors during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries did not fit their ideas of progress, propriety, and Protestantism. The rituals of Irish Catholicism, the lamentations of funeral wakes, the Irish language they could not comprehend, even the landscapes were all strange to tourists from England, Wales, and Scotland. Overlooking the acute despair in England's own industrial cities, these travelers opined in their writings that the poverty, bog lands, and ill-thatched houses of rural Ireland indicated moral failures of the Irish character.
LC Classification NumberPS3573.I44748
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